The Miller Center of Public Affairs launched the Presidential Classroom this week, a website offering teachers, students and the general public free online resources about U.S.
Former University student George Huguely's defense team opened its presentation yesterday afternoon by claiming ex-girlfriend Yeardley Love died from suffocating while lying face down on her pillow.
Carrying signs calling for a "Living Wage Now!" and urging community members not to "take injustice lying down," Charlottesville community organizations held a press conference on the steps of Madison Hall yesterday to show their support for the Living Wage Campaign. The press conference is part of a series of weekly student, faculty and community rallies which have occurred the past three weeks demanding the introduction of a $13 dollar minimum wage at the University, said second-year College student Carl David Goette-Luciak, a member of the campaign. Charlottesville resident and former City Council candidate Brandon Collins read from a letter detailing the campaign's requests, which he then delivered to Nancy Rivers, University President Teresa A.
The Aurora Foundation awarded a $5,000 grant to the Sheila C. Johnson Center of the Curry School of Education yesterday for the creation of a website to benefit student veterans at the University. The center's website aims to increase awareness of student veterans at the University and give them a forum for connection and support. Navigating the transition from military life to student life "can be tough," said Seth Hayden, a lecturer and research associate in the Johnson Center.
Democratic Congressional candidate Andy Schmookler spoke to about 80 students at the University Democrats meeting yesterday evening in Clark Hall about his campaign to be the House of Representatives from Virginia's 6th district. Schookler said he believes the state's biggest problem is its lack of transparency in dealing with current political topics. While acknowledging that the economic downturn, climate change and healthcare as important issues, Schookler said problems within the political system fuel all of these. "The crisis has to do with our incapacity to deal with any of these issues in a constructive and honest way," Schmookler said. Schmookler said he hopes his campaign can capitalize on the larger political audience during this presidential election year, and deliver an important political message. "I have made my campaign into as good an instrument as I know how to strike a meaningful blow," he said.
Examination of the prosecution's witnesses continued yesterday in the seventh day of the trial of former University student George Huguely, as expert witnesses described their analysis of former University student Yeardley Love's brain.
The Virginia Senate narrowly defeated a bill 20-18 yesterday which sought to eliminate tenure for public school teachers of grades kindergarten through 12.
The Obama administration proposed a budget Monday which could increase funding for educational arts and humanities programs, including those in higher education institutions, by more than five percent.
The Virginia House of Delegates passed House Bill 502 yesterday by a vote of 72-28. The legislation seeks to redefine the "triggerman rule" by allowing accomplices of capital crimes to be sentenced with capital punishment. Delegate C.
Virginia consumers are more financially confident than they were a year ago, a survey released last week by the Roanoke College Institute for Policy and Opinion suggests. IPOR surveyed 600 Virginia households about their financial situations, consumer expectations and business conditions.
Medical examiner Bill Gormley testified yesterday that Yeardley Love died of blunt force trauma injuries to the head and neck as George Huguely's murder trial entered its sixth day.
The Republican-led Virginia House of Delegates yesterday voted 64-34 to advance a 'personhood' bill, which would give full personhood rights to a fertilized egg at the moment of conception.
Hunter Rawlings, the president of the American Association of Universities, delivered a lecture yesterday evening in Cocke Hall which emphasized the importance of a classics education for the Founding Fathers, and by extension the shape of the nation. In his lecture titled "The Founders and the Classics," Rawlings, a former president of Cornell University, discussed how James Madison and Thomas Jefferson benefited from a strong classics education. Rawlings commanded the room and used humor to engage the audience.
Jurors viewed video testimony Friday, which was taken after the detainment of former University student George Huguely, showing his apparent shock at the death of ex-girlfriend and former University student Yeardley Love.
The Honor Committee voted 19-2 yesterday evening to dismiss informed retraction legislation which sought to revise the honor system's conscientious retraction through a bylaw change. Batten School Representative Michael Karlik proposed the legislation last month and was among the two Committee members in favor of passing the legislation. "There needs to be a cultural shift among students ... students are reluctant to engage in lengthy trials, but the new IR is an attempt to get at the reluctance by allowing students to approach their fellow peers who they think committed an honor offense without the long, lengthy process," Karlik said. The informed retraction would allow a student to avoid formal honor proceedings by allowing him to admit his mistake after it had been discovered by another party.
The Minority Rights Coalition hosted a debate for Student Council, Honor Committee and University Judiciary Committee candidates 6 p.m.
Faculty members at Friday's Faculty Senate meeting expressed concern with the transparency of the new internal financial model. The day after youth advocacy group Virginia21 marched to the steps of the State Capitol to encourage legislators to support Gov.
On May 3, 2010, at 2:24 a.m., Charlottesville police responded to a dispatch reporting an “alcohol overdose” at a 14th Street apartment, Charlottesville Police Officer K.W. Blackwell testified at the murder trial of former University student George Huguely yesterday. Huguely is charged with the first-degree murder of ex-girlfriend and former University student Yeardley Love.
The Lawn Selection Committee Wednesday notified 47 students selected to live on the Lawn next year, chosen from 255 rising fourth-year applicants. The committee selected next year's Lawn residents based on academic achievement, extracurricular involvement, demonstrated commitment to further involvement in the University community and an appreciation of the opportunities and responsibilities of living on the Lawn, as well as the ideals of the Lawn community, Head Lawn Resident Reedy Swanson said. Residents of seven endowed Lawn rooms, five of which are reserved for members of prominent organizations on Grounds, have not yet been announced.
